The Chipper

Nick | 03/25/2014 | 5

The bread and butter (or perhaps, meat and sweet potatoes) of CrossFit are the couplet and triplet workouts.  These are the WODs where we combine two or three movements and then cycle through them for several rounds either for time or in AMRAP style.  When the movements, reps, weights and time domains are chosen well the WOD allows us to find a high level of metabolic intensity.  As one muscle group or movement pattern get tired, another one takes over to allow us to keep moving fast and challenging our heart and lungs.

The chipper is most often a different kind of stimulus.  We work through a higher number of reps of a movement once before moving on to the next, doing each only once but generally doing a larger number of separate movements. Those of you who completed last week’s open workout probably noticed it felt a bit different.  If you who made it through 60 calories on the rower and 50 toes to bar, I’m sure those wallballs felt a lot heavier than they normally do.  And if you happened to make it through all 40 of those, I guarantee those cleans were much more challenging than 135/95 normally feels.  And that was all before the muscle ups came up (for those lucky enough to get that far).

Today we all get to experience this.  Being able to do a technical movement or a lift at a certain weight is great, but how ready are you to do it after you have fatigued your body through an onslaught of other hard work?  Come in today and find out.  I’m willing to bet those last ten push jerks feel… different than they might normally.

STR:

High Bar Back Squat
3-3-3-3-3

WOD:

40 burpees
30 cleans (135/95)
20 front squats
10 push jerks